Improvement in dress-facings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. MAOKEE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN DRESS-FACINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 5,840, dated January 10, 1865.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES A. MAcKEE, a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk V and, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Dress-Faoin g; and I do hereby declare the .same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side view of such facing. Fig. 2 denotes its application to the lower part of a dress. Fig.3is atransverse section ofFig.2.

Prior to my invention it has been customary to face the bottom of a dress with a band of leather or enameled cloth or like material having a water-proof glazing or surface. Owing' to variations 0f temperature and other atmospheric changes, the band, particularly at its upper edge, would become either elongated or contracted at times more than at others, and so as to pucker the dress and cause it to have a bad appearance where stitched to the band. Furthermore7 owing to its stiffness, it becomes difficult to attach it at its upper edge to the dress without causing the dress to hang badly in its folds, or be liable to become worn and defa-ced along the stitching or seam. In order to obviate these difiiculties, I have combined with the glazed water-proof facing a thin eXible cloth Vband or glazed linen facing, the t-wo being connected together by laying one flatwise on the other7 with the edge of one directly over that of the other,or about so, and stitching or sewing the two together, and afterward unfolding the two.

ln the drawings, a denotes the water-proof facing, and b the thin linen facing, A being a portion of the lower part of a dress.

In applying the combination-facing to a dress the lower edge of the water-proof band is to be sewed tothe bottom edge ofthe dress, and is to be protected by a band of bra-id, c, stitched to the dress and the waterproof facing. The flexible linen facing at or near its upper edge is to be stitched to the dress, the line of stitching being shown at d.

The combination-band facing not only makes a better finish to the dress, but can be applied to much better advantage, and will operate much better than the single band of waterproof material.

I claim- The new manufacture or combination dressfacing as composed of the waterproof or enameled cloth band and the flexible linen band, or its equivalent, varranged and connected together in manner and to be used substantially as specified.

JAMES A. MAOKEE.

Vitnesses:

It. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

